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Date: | Sat, 3 Dec 94 02:22:18 EST |
From: | peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) |
To: | mrb AT robots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk |
Cc: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: Disabling use of disk as free store. |
Reply-To: | babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu |
> Frankly I would rather my program exited immediately when it ran out > of memory rather than continue at snails pace using the disk (although > I can see the feature might be extremely useful). I haven't tried this, but perhaps if you pointed the go32tmp environment variable at a non-existent disk or subdirectory it might crash when attempting to swap.
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